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W. J. MoDONNEL.

MEASURE.

No. 594,548. Patented Nov. 30, 1897.

WITNESSES /NVENTO/-7 A TTOHNEY.

NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM JOHN MODONNEL, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF TO FRANK I. GUNNELL, OF SAME PLACE.

MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 59l,548,dated November 30, 1897. Application filed February 23, 1897- Serial No. 624,662. (No model.)

To wZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM JOHN MCDON- NEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and the others-normally open, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for measuring dry and liquid materials.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section taken through a device which embodies my invention, and to one side of its center. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

A represents an oblong receptacle or frame, which is preferably made angular in crosssection and provided with the door B at one end for pouring in the material which is to bemeasured. Extendinglongitudinallyalong the bottom of the receptacle at one side is the angular tube 0, which projects beyond the receptacle A at one end, is open at both ends, and has a series of slots made through its top corresponding in number to the spring-actuated slides D, which are provided with the handles F, which project above the top of the receptacle, as shown. The outer slide D has its spring to keep it normally closed, so as to prevent the escape of any of the material until the operator is ready, while the other slides D, of which there may be any suitable number, remain normally open and are only brought into play when they are depressed. Gonnecting with the inner edge of the tube and extending diagonally across, so that its other end connects with the outer side of the receptacle, is a partition G, as

shown in dotted lines, and which serves to' retain the material after it has begun to get low in the receptacle in the chamber I, that is'formed in the inner end of the receptacle, and which chamber is only as high as the tube 0.

Theispaces between the slides represent a certain quantity of either liquid or dry material, which is allowed to flow into the tube in case liquid is used and which must be forced therein by its own weight when the measure is tilted and shaken, so as to cause it to settle into the tube 0. The outer slide D remaining normally closed prevents the escape of any of the material until the slide is raised, while the other slides are held pressed outward by their springs for the purpose of allowing the tube 0 to freely fill with the material that is being measured. After the tube 0 has become filled with the material that is to be measured the first, second, third, or fourth slide D is depressed, so as to hold the material in the tube, and then the outer slide D is drawn outward while the inner slide remains depressed, and then the material will either flow out of itself or can be emptied by turning the receptacle upon end. Where material has sunk into the chamber .I, that is formed by the partition G, the inner side of the tube, and the outer sides of the receptacle, it is only necessary to tilt up the receptacle to empty the material from the chamber J into the chamber I. The partition G serves to keep the material, when the supply is running low, in position to flow freely into the inner end of the tube 0.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a measure for dry or liquid material, the receptacle provided with a suitable opening for filling purposes, the tube 0 extending partially through the receptacle along its bottom, and a suitable door for closing the opening, combined with spring -actuated slides which are adapted to work in and outthrough the tube; the outer slide remaining normally closed while the others are normally open, substantially as shown.

v2. In a measure for dry or liquid material, a receptacle, a tube placed along its bottom, and provided with a series of slots through its top, anda partition G secured to the inher end of the tube and extending across the receptacle, combined with a series of springactuated slides which work in and out of the slots in the top of the tube, the outer slide remaining normally closed while the inner ones are normally open, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM JOHN MODONN EL.

Witnesses:

FRANK I. GUNNELL, JOHN T. BRECKON. 

